Sentences with phrase «to accelerate global warming»

And by the measure of revenue, the last decade has been a period of accelerated global warming for large firms.

These are much more CO2 intensive ways to power vehicles than oil, and would potentially accelerate global warming.

Since cows release gas during digestion, they put out an enormous amount of methane gas into the air, which accelerates global warming.

The heat - trapping gas could dramatically accelerate global warming.

And since the planet's store of soil carbon is at least twice the quantity locked in the vegetation and the atmosphere, this could in turn accelerate global warming.

Given that methane has 20 times the impact of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, such a release could have accelerated global warming at that time.

And then the trees grown to absorb carbon would have to be stored deep underground, to prevent the carbon returning to the atmosphere to accelerate global warming rather than limit it.

If even a portion of that carbon is released through further deforestation, the report warns, the resulting increase in the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere would significantly accelerate global warming.

Large - scale tree mortality in tropical ecosystems could thus act as a positive feedback mechanism, accelerating the global warming effect.

The loss of sea ice also has the potential to accelerate global warming trends and to change climate patterns.

If a significant amount of that is added to the atmosphere, due to microbial activity, that will accelerate the global warming process.

Those ten years also continued an extended period of accelerating global warming, with more national temperature records reported broken than in any previous decade.

Other studies have predicted ever greater demand for air conditioning, which will in turn accelerate global warming.

Today, more than 1/3 of our nation depends on this fuel source for electricity, meaning when oil and gas companies let it escape into the atmosphere, it not only accelerates global warming, it also results in massive amounts of wasted resources and diminishes our energy independence.

In the past, these positive phases have coincided with accelerated global warming.

The release of these gases could accelerate global warming as the world's permafrost warms and thaws over the coming decades.

That means wildfires are a dangerous amplifying feedback, whereby global warming causes more wildfires, which release carbon dioxide, thereby accelerating global warming.

Would canvassing the vast expanses of land that would be necessary to power even one city with solar collectors unintentionally accelerate global warming by reflecting heat back into what you guys believe is an atmosphere overburdened with heat collecting CO2?

Geoengineering will not help achieve that long - term target, but the cooling effects of large sulfate clouds are nearly instantaneous, making geoengineering potentially valuable in the event of acute climate crises such as the melting of Arctic sea ice, which could further accelerate global warming over the decades.

He acknowledges that human activity accelerated global warming and proposes an «all of the above energy solution» called The Lexington Project to stem it.

In reality, say its scientists, planned new forests, called «carbon sinks», will swiftly become saturated with carbon and begin returning most of their carbon to the atmosphere, temporarily accelerating global warming.

Peaking oil and natural gas extraction is going to accelerate global warming when many desperate people use wood and coal for heating and cooking.

People working with Caldeira in the last two years have settled a number of such big and never - before - asked questions − for instance, whether geo - engineering could save the Arctic ice cap (it would not) or whether treating the ocean as a renewable energy source would actually accelerate global warming (it would).

Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology entities (Global Studies and Languages, Global Borders Research Collaboration, and Anthropology) sponsored his presentation, which answered the burning question: Is Islmabopbia Accelerating Global Warming?

As the decadal ENSO cycle transitions to a warm phase, a new study expects accelerated global warming and a «hiatus» in Hadley Cell expansion.

That the number of authors agreeing with human - accelerated global warming comes in at over nine - thousand -LRB-!)

There is no real debate in the peer - reviewed scientific literature over the fact that the unusual, accelerating global warming seen since the 19th Century is attributable to the increase of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, in the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels.

Whether you believe that humans are responsible for accelerating global warming, and I am not personally convinced that we make much difference, or feel that it is a natural cycle that is happening in our solar system, does not make most of the information in this book any less worthwhile.

The loss of large areas of ice on the surface could accelerate global warming because less of the sun's energy would be reflected away from Earth to begin with (refer back to our discussion of the greenhouse effect).

Since the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, the release of carbon dioxide from the thawing soils, and also of vast quantities of methane, will almost certainly accelerate global warming yet further.

The adjacent chart pretty much makes a turkey mockery of accelerating global warming fears.

A darker — and so more heat - absorbent — Arctic, though, will surely accelerate global warming and may thus encourage melting of the land - bound Greenland ice sheet.

Has two - decades worth of cumulative CO2 growth in the atmosphere caused the «experts»» predicted dangerous and rapidly accelerating global warming?

A UN report has warned that carbon dioxide and methane released from melting permafrost could push the climate past a tipping point and dangerously accelerate global warming.

Burning rainforests, melting tundra could accelerate global warming well beyond current projections

And as the evidence reveals, the Obama / Kerry climate - porn duo exist during a period of cooling, not the extreme accelerating global warming that they claim.

whereas this process will sequester more CO2 from our atmosphere, this is a very slow process relative to anthropogenically accelerated global warming and I don't really believe it should be used in the context of this debate.

The WUWT blog seemed pro-Sheldon technique instead of standard stats, so where did I miss the post reporting accelerated global warming through the last decade?

These positive feedbacks accelerate global warming and also introduce uncertainty into estimates of climate sensitivity, say Gerard Roe and Marcia Baker of the University of Washington in Seattle.

You report that «a stormier Arctic could fast - track methane gas into the atmosphere, potentially accelerating global warming» (30 November, p...

As for other planets getting hotter as well, this may be true, but it will only accelerate global WARMING.

Formula production and use generate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which accelerate global warming and produce pollution and toxic emissions upon disposal.

But several new studies show the biofuel boom is doing exactly the opposite of what its proponents intended: it's dramatically accelerating global warming, imperiling the planet in the name of saving it.

As the decadal ENSO cycle transitions to a warm phase, the authors expect the opposite to occur, with accelerated global warming and a «hiatus» in Hadley Cell expansion.